Some events are locked behind the story

While you should take your time exploring the regions, solving puzzles, and doing quests at your own pace, you should know that some events are locked to certain regions. This means that you have to be able to access those regions to participate in events for Primogems and other loot. While it’s not the end … Read more

Heal up at Statues of the Seven

Eating food will heal and revive your party, but you can run out of it quickly if you’re not careful. Between fights, consider teleporting back to any of the Statues of the Seven. These are large statues where you donate Amenoculus, Geoculus, and Electroculus to power up your character. They’ll revive and heal your party … Read more

Use Elemental Sight to find missing Seelies

As you travel around Teyvat, you’ll notice these blue glowing creatures called Seelies. When you follow them, they’ll lead you to a base that they’ll sit in. Once you arrive, you’ll be rewarded with treasure. If you ever see one of these Seelie bases, but you can’t find the Seelie that belongs there, you can … Read more

Pick up everything

As you walk around, you’ll notice sparkling environmental items just about everywhere. You have an inventory limit of 10,000, so just pick up everything you can. Flowers, food ingredients, and other items that might seem useless will be useful down the line to craft into various foods and power-ups for your characters. Flowers and some … Read more

Develop Your Serenitea Pot

The Serenitea Pot is a late-game gadget that spirits you away to a magical realm sealed within in a tea pot. This tea pot is Genshin Impact’s version of player housing, and it offers a robust selection of structures, furnishings, and ornaments to craft the fantasy getaway of your dreams. You’re fairly limited when you … Read more

Don’t Skip Events

Genshin Impact entices you to log in on a daily basis to complete commission quests for a handful of free Primogems. For low spenders, these gems go a long way toward spending Wishes on limited-time Event Banners(Opens in a new window). In addition to these daily chores, developer Mihoyo introduces special events on a bi-weekly … Read more

Some other things you should know

Always stop to collect any Amenoculus, Geoculus, or Electroculus you see floating nearby. These collectibles can be traded into the Statues of the Seven scattered around the world to upgrade them. Doing so gives you a bunch of rewards, including more stamina so you can climb higher or windglide for longer. These guides for Anemoculus … Read more

Learn how to evade and tap sprint instead of holding it

Genshin Impact doesn’t have a dodge or roll functionality, but if you time it well, you can use sprint to quickly evade through attacks. This is quite hard to learn, but it’s one of the most useful skills, especially in terms of fighting high-level bosses like Stormterror or Azhdaha in the Trounce Domain. Stamina is … Read more

Cooking isn’t just for fun

Though cooking might seem like a bit of a novelty, food is very powerful in Genshin Impact. Eating meals is one of the only ways to revive characters, but food can also increase stats, grant immunity to status effects like the cold in Dragonspine, or just straight-up heal you. This is why it’s always useful … Read more

Remember you can lower World Level

In Genshin Impact, the difficulty of enemies, bosses, and the quality of the rewards they drop, is determined by world level. But as this scales with adventure rank, and not the actual level of your characters, difficulty can sometimes catch you off-guard. If you’re finding things tough, you can lower world level by one in … Read more